Zack MATTHEWS: This undergraduate thesis focuses on the contemporary condition of “digital addiction” and how the broad embrace of digital space has come at the expense of culturally significant, physical social exchanges.

Tuesday, March 4, at 6:15pm in 612 Schermerhorn, join Mario Carpo, author of Architecture in the Age of Printing and The Alphabet and the Algorithm, for the second talk organized by the Collins/Kaufmann Forum for Modern Architectural History this term: “The Second Digital Turn: The Style of Big Data”.

Greg Lynn has been assisting the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) with the founding of a digital archive and a digital collection of architectural projects. Associated with this effort are three exhibitions encompassing 25 projects that were impacted by digital technology and conceived during a 20 year period beginning in the early 1980s. . . .

Mary BURR & Katie STRANIX: This seminar focused on applying digital techniques and advanced form-making strategies to an analog or manual tradition of construction with the most historically valued and stable material—marble. The goal of the seminar was to rethink the possibilities of marble for a new generation of progressive use in architecture—in this case as an architectural panel.

Now almost 20 years old, the digital turn in architecture has already gone through several stages and phases. Architectural Design (AD) has captured them all—from folding to cyberspace, nonlinearity and hypersurfaces, from versioning to scripting, emergence, information modelling and parametricism. . . . This anthology of AD’s most salient articles is chronologically and thematically arranged to provide a complete historical timeline of the recent rise to pre-eminence of computer-based design and production. . . .

Having been abandoned for 38 years now, the development of the areas lying within the UN-controlled Buffer Zone in Cyprus has been brought to a practical standstill. The aim of the Visiting School will be to hypothetically re-instantiate this development, fast-forwarding into the near future and speculating on the sprawling tendencies of the confiscated territories. The main agenda will be to use digital tools in order to explore non-linear scenarios of its targeted rehabilitation.

The summer workshop 2012 of the “Digital Architecture Laboratory” (DAL) chose the atrium of the School of Architecture of Hunan University, Changsha, to set the general framework for an installation which catalyses the potential of articulated surfaces. Students of nine groups were briefed to propose a design that activates the unemployed atrium space. After having analyzed the current deficiencies of the atrium, a series of 1:1 scale design mock-ups helped the groups to adjust and refine their design proposals as well as encouraged them to consider befitting materials at the early stage of the design.